Liam Mellows

Liam Mellows (25 May 1892-8 December 1922) was an Irish Republican Army leader and Sinn Fein politician during the Irish Civil War.

Biography
Liam Mellows was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, England, the son of a British Army officer from County Wexford, Ireland. Mellows was an Irish nationalist from a young age, and he joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood, befriending the socialist James Connolly. He led 700 volunteers in attacks on Royal Irish Constabulary stations in County Galway during the 1916 Easter Rising, and he was exiled in the United States after the failure of the uprising. Upon his return to Ireland, Mellows became a Sinn Fein leader, and he opposed the 1921 peace treaty with the United Kingdom at the end of the Irish War of Independence. Mellows was captured by the Irish military during the Battle of Dublin in 1922, and he was executed by firing squad alongside several other senior IRA leaders.